Combined button and elastic shoe



(No Model.)

I. FREED & J. A. APPLBQK.

COMBINED BUTTON AND ELASTIC SHOE. No; 373,230.

Patente d Nov. 15,1887.

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PETERS, Pnowulna n h Washington-9Tb! UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

ISAAC FREED' AND JOHN A. AFFLEOK, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED BUTTON AND ELASTIC SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,230, dated November 15, 1887, Application filed September 15, 1887. Serial No. 249,785. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC FREED and J OHN A. AFFLEOK, citizens of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Danphin and State ofPennsyvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Combined Button and Elastic Shoes; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of .the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, refei ence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention consists in ladies combined elastlc and button shoes, the same comprising in its construction both a button-flap and buttons and an elastic gore, this construction obviating the great inconvenience and unc0m fortableness to the wearers of shoes resulting from the elastic gore being made so stout that it binds the ankle to a degree that stops the circulation of blood and produces pain, and also obviating the great difficulty and expenditure of labor as well as inconvenience to shoe dealers and their customers of being obliged to set back or forward the buttons ofordinary buttonshoes in order to fit them to the ankle and feet of the wearers when the elastic gore is not used as an auxiliary holder to the buttons.

Our invention is such that a light elastic gore co-operates with the buttons for holding the shoe upon the foot,while the said gore produces sufficient draft'upon the-upper-leather ofthe shoe to cause it to fit snugly in cases where the buttons are set too far forward,and allows sufficient yielding of said upper-leather to render unnecessary the setting forward of the buttons in cases where the shoe when but toned fits too tight and would require the buttons to be changed or set forward.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved combined button and elastic gored ladys shoe, theshoe being shown partly unbuttoned. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the hind quarters of the shoe, showing it cut to receive the elastic gore; and Fig. 3 is a rear view of the elastic gore.

In the drawings, A represents a ladys button-shoe in form of a gaiter, it being constructed with a side opening,a, furnished with a flap, b, button-holes c, and buttons d, as shown, or in any other equivalent manner whereby the shoe can be opened and closed at the side, as shown, by means of buttons or other similar fastenings.

The shoe in its manufacture is formed with twoupper hind quarters similar to B B, which are cut. with a space, b, one in each, as shown in Fig. 2, the spaces being'filled with an elastic gore, O, which is sewed to the edges of the leather, as represented. This gore between the spaces may be covered by back pieces of the hind quarters, which protect it from undue wear,and in which the back seam is formed, as will be seen from Fig. 1 of the drawings. The gore is split atg at its bottom midway of its width, in order that it may conveniently be spread apart to conform to the shape of the shoe at the heel-counter.

It will be seen that by placing in the rear of ladies shoes which are to be fastened by buttons the elastic goring no back-seam is required where the goring is placed, or above the point where the lower portion of the goring is stitched, and that all injurious tension is taken off the shoe at the back during its use, therebysavingtheshoe from rippingand breaking out; also, all injurious tension is taken off the button flap or fly, button-holes, and but tons, thereby preventing the button-fly from breaking and ripping, the buttons from pulling off, and avoiding the necessity of the buttons being moved forward or backward; and, finally, by this manner of construction the fit of the shoe is more perfect, the two hind quar ters adiusting themselves to different-sized ankles and legs, there being an equal tensionon the upper-leathers of the shoe resulting from the elastic goring being in the back of the shoe.

It will be understood that the goring G is to be madeof a much lighter and finer elastic fabric than is commonly employediu Congress gaiters not provided with buttons or other equivalent fastenings.

What we claim as our invention is 1. In an improved article of manufacture, the button boot or shoe herein described, the hind quarters of which are each provided with IOO an opening or space upon each side of the back seam extending from the top for a portion of its depth only, such openings or spaces filled with an elastic gore slitted in its lower portion, the upper or unslit portion being covered between the spaces by portions of the quarters united by the back seam, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved button boot or shoe herein described, the quarters of which are provided each with an opening or space upon each side of the back seam, and having an elastic gore slitted in its lower portion adapting it to be spread to conform to the shape of the ankle portion of the shoe, the parts being united 15 substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we alfix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC FREED.

JOHN A. AFFLECK.

WVitnesses:

CHAS. A. DISBROW, J. F. BURK. 

